“On June 7, 2013, Jeffrey and I were going to do an overnight trip to Boone, N.C., to pick up my daughter the next day at a summer camp,” Williams said.

Williams said when they first checked into the room, “it smelt like cigarette smoke and I didn’t like it, it didn’t seem clean so I asked if there was another room available.” They were offered another room and from there they started getting ready for bed, Williams said.

“While I was in bathroom, I just started getting lightheaded and dizzy, and not understanding what was happening.” Williams said.

In the room for less than an hour, “I remember crawling to the floor and I knew I needed help, but my phone was plugged in by the bed. So, I called for Jeffrey several times and he never answered and I remember reaching for the door and couldn’t reach it to open it. And that was the last thing I remember.” Williams said.

Williams said she was discovered the next morning, barely alive, after having been unconscious on the bathroom floor for more than 14 hours. Jeffrey did not survive.

“It turned out that carbon monoxide had leaked up from the pool heater underneath the room.” Williams said.

Since then, she's made it her mission to alert people to the dangers of this odorless, tasteless, and deadly gas. Williams said she wants her tragedy to serve a message.

The Williams family started the Jeffrey Lee Williams Foundation to help prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. The foundation raises money to purchase carbon monoxide alarms to donate to fire departments, which will then be installed in people’s homes.

Since 2015, Williams said the foundation has donated 4,069 Carbon Monoxide alarms to fire departments.

“Where there is a source, there is a need for carbon monoxide alarm.” Williams said.

If you’d like to donate to the Jeffrey Lee Williams foundation, click here.